ECE 140: Linear Circuits
(Whmis Test)
Lab Instructors: Nizar Messaoudi & Mike Foulger
Outline
Workplace Hazardous Materials
Information System (WHMIS) training (1
hour)
 CourseBook Account Check and Group
Set-up For Lab and CDT Submissions
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Lab & CDT Groups
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Students should choose one partner for CDTs and Labs
for the entire term.
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CDTs and Labs are to be performed in the same group of 2.
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Groups for Labs and CDTs can be created on Course Book
(which will be used for lab reports submission).
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A tutorial on how to use Course Book to set up a group can
be found at
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~yqhuang/labs/course_book/
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Absent partners must be reported to the teaching
team.
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Lab & CDT Groups
Connect to https://ecewo.uwaterloo.ca and click
"Course Book Online“
 Login using your quest id and password.

UW id (used for quest)
Student id number (8 digit number)
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Lab & CDT Groups
You will be prompted to change your password.
 Your new password must be a minimum of 8
characters long and contain at least one
number.
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Lab & CDT Groups
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Select “Groups", then “Create Group”
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Lab & CDT Groups
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Enter your partner’s user ID (Quest ID),
then select “Add Member”.You are done
now. Remember to logout.
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Important Note
Please be aware that each group of two
students needs to do the Lab1 prelab A
and prelab B and submit them to your
Course Book group account before
8:00am on the day of your Lab1
experiment.
 Refer to the lab web page
(http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~lab140/) for the
prelab submission template and
procedures.
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Workplace Hazardous Materials
Information System (WHMIS)
Training
WHMIS
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All students taking courses offered by the
Faculty of Engineering must have appropriate
instruction on safety issues.

The Workplace Hazardous Material
Information System (WHMIS) training
satisfies this requirement.
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This requirement MUST be satisfied by
obtaining a credit for WHMIS training before
the student can be allowed to engage in lab
work. (In ECE 140, lab 1 on week 2)
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WHMIS
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Credit for WHMIS training will be awarded on completion of
the WHMIS course on UW-ACE, and will be registered in
Quest and in your transcript.
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The WHMIS training must be conducted individually by each
student. (no groups)
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The WHMIS training in UW-ACE requires each student to
complete a number of sections with a quiz on each section.
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You have to get at least 80% on any one section to be able to
proceed to the next section. Unlimited number of trials.
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WHMIS
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Login to UW-ACE, and select “Find Course”
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WHMIS
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Type “WHMIS” in the “Keyword Search”, then select
“Search”.
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WHMIS
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Select “enroll”
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WHMIS
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Select the WHMIS course, click on the WHMIS quiz tab.
At the bottom, there is a link called "start WHMIS". The
rest guides you through a sequence of resource pages
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WHMIS
The resources in each section contains all the necessary
information to complete the WHMIS training.
 Select “Begin Quiz”
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WHMIS
After you finish answering the questions,
select “submit”.
 A window showing your answer and
score will be displayed.
 To proceed, select “continue” at the
bottom of the page
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WHMIS
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If you got less than 80%, click on the provided link to
re-take the same quiz again.
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WHMIS
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If you got at least 80%, select “next” to
proceed.
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WHMIS
After you finish all the quizzes, a certificate will be
displayed on the final window.
 Leave the certificate on the computer screen until one
of the teaching team verifies it. Otherwise, we cannot
verify that you passed the WHMIS training.
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WHMIS
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Inform me when you are done so that I can
mark your name for completing the WHMIS
training.
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If you cannot make it today, you have to do
it yourself and forward the obtained
certificate to mpfoulge@uwaterloo.ca or
bring it with you in Lab 1.
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You will not be allowed to do lab 1 (week 2)
if you did not provide the WHMIS
certificate.
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Useful Links
Lab homepage (Prelab due date 8:00 am on
the day of your Lab1)
http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~lab140
 Course Book https://ecewo.uwaterloo.ca
 Course Book tutorial
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~yqhuang/labs/co
urse_book/
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Maple T. A. http://mapleta.uwaterloo.ca
 Forward WHMIS certificate to
mpfoulge@uwaterloo.ca
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